Mandates Quotes · Page 2

Congress seems to thrive on breaking promises and passing unfunded mandates down to local government. It's really just a matter of priorities.

— Jared Polis

This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a…

— Mitt Romney

Winning control of the Senate would allow Republicans to pass a whole range of measures now being held up by Reid, often…

— Charles Krauthammer

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression…

— George H. W. Bush

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

— Jack London

I do not feel that I have a mandate from the entire world of football - the fans, the players, the clubs,…

— Sepp Blatter

[The Democrats] are sitting there thinking they really won. They won the popular vote. "We're only talking about this election Kellyanne [Conway].…

— Rush Limbaugh

Rand Paul and Chris Christie both said vaccinations should be a choice, not a government mandate. Because when have Republicans ever told…

— Bill Maher

Jeremy [Corbyn] earned the right to take up the leadership of the party with a big majority. But he has failed and…

— Harriet Harman

I think we have a Tea Party mandate, and that Tea Party mandate is for good-government type of things, things like term…

— Rand Paul

If unbridled licence of speech and writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate; even the highest and truest…

— Pope Leo XIII

I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.

— James Douglas

We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for…

— Vladimir Putin

More and more clearly every day, out of biology, anthropology, sociology, history, economic analysis, psychological insight, plain human decency and common sense,…

— Ordway Tead

Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate…

— Edward Gibbon

The Constitution exists precisely so that opinions and judgments, including esthetic and moral judgments about art and literature, can be formed, tested,…

— Anthony Kennedy

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

— George Will

Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word…

— Wayne Shorter

If we have a president who asked for a mandate on combating gun violence, as Hillary Clinton is requesting, that's going to…

— Chris Murphy

Far from trying to rig the system, I have spent decades opposing cronyism and all political favors, including mandates, subsidies and protective…

— Charles Koch

If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.

— Jesse Ventura

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one…

— H. L. Mencken

Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It…

— Pope Pius X

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

— Billy Graham

Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very…

— Che Guevara